Informative presentation about Wikidata and mapping at at the 2015 "State
of the Map US" national conference in New York, by Andy Mabbett:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/June_2015/Contents/USA_report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6pnDQcrtwQ
Cheers,
Pine
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Here are this week's stories from the Wikimedia blog.
• Raising awareness of endangered species, one Wikipedia page at a time:
Christian Cariño
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/07/10/awareness-of-endangered-species/
• News on Wikipedia: Reddit controversy and the Women’s World Cup final
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Here are this week's stories from the Wikimedia blog.
• Raising awareness of endangered species, one Wikipedia page at a time:
Christian Cariño
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/07/10/awareness-of-endangered-species/
• News on Wikipedia: Reddit controversy and the Women’s World Cup final
https://bl
On 10 July 2015 at 16:47, Tanweer Morshed wrote:
> That's fantastic! I really want to participate in the competition. But I am
> from Bangladesh, can I participate?
Of course! The page I linked to says "Entry is open worldwide, but
voucher prizes will be offered in Stg£ only."
--
Andy Mabbett
I am glad to hear that Luis Villa's department has been thinking about
Innovation. Rather than debate it here, perhaps the team would like
to expose some of their work on Meta. However I might just note that
it would probably have helped the community to help them if the team
had exposed their wo
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Rogol Domedonfors
> wrote:
>
>> The 2015 Call to Action identified the need to Support innovation &
>> new knowledge
>> * Integrate, consolidate, and pause or stop stalled initiatives.
>> * Create space
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Rogol Domedonfors
wrote:
> The 2015 Call to Action identified the need to Support innovation &
> new knowledge
> * Integrate, consolidate, and pause or stop stalled initiatives.
> * Create spaces for future community-led innovations and new
> knowledge crea
Hi Andy,
That's fantastic! I really want to participate in the competition. But I am
from Bangladesh, can I participate?
Thanks,
Tanweer Morshed
Wikimedia Bangladesh
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Andy Mabbett
wrote:
> As Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society of Chemistry, I'm
> worki
As Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society of Chemistry, I'm
working with our Wikiquote colleagues to raise awareness of that
project, though a competition:
http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/2015/07/09/quotable-chemistry-a-chemistry-world-competition/
to source quotes about chemistry.
Yo
